George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night...
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I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.
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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?
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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
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There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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Paradoxes are the only truths.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary...
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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten...
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.
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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.